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Museums & culture

Guided museum visits, art and history tours, shows and performances – the experiences that reward some research before you go.

  • Check the length – three hours in a museum is plenty for most people.
  • See whether the tour covers highlights or a theme.
  • For performances, check seat category and start time.
Casa Batlló, Barcelona
Museums & culture

Casa Batlló

A townhouse on Passeig de Gràcia that Gaudí remodelled in 1904–06, with a skeleton-like façade, an undulating tiled roof said to represent a dragon's back, and interiors where almost nothing is a straight line.

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Doge's Palace & St Mark's, Venice
Museums & culture

Doge's Palace & St Mark's

The seat of Venetian power for centuries, a Gothic palace of grand council halls, golden staircases and enormous paintings, linked to the old prison by the Bridge of Sighs. Next door, St Mark's Basilica is covered in Byzantine mosaics, and the Campanile (bell tower) has the best view over the roofs.

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Anne Frank House, Amsterdam
Museums & culture

Anne Frank House

The canal house where Anne Frank and seven others hid from the Nazis for over two years, and where she wrote her diary. The rooms are left largely bare, which makes the visit quiet and affecting. It is one of the most visited museums in the Netherlands.

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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Museums & culture

Rijksmuseum

The national museum of the Netherlands holds Rembrandt's The Night Watch, Vermeer's The Milkmaid and a collection of Golden Age painting that is hard to match. The building, a neo-Gothic palace with gardens and a cycling tunnel beneath it, is a destination itself.

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Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Museums & culture

Van Gogh Museum

The world's largest collection of Van Gogh's work, about 200 paintings, hundreds of drawings and his letters, arranged in chronological order so you can follow his development from dark early work to the bright colours of Arles.

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Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Museums & culture

Uffizi Gallery

One of the world's greatest collections of Renaissance painting, including Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, works by Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael, and a long corridor of classical sculpture.

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